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How the Australian government plans to access encrypted messages(theage.com.au)
107 points by visural 9y ago|101 comments
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by visural 10y ago
But the thing that’s unusual about good scientists is that while they’re doing whatever they’re doing, they’re not so sure of themselves as others usually are. They can live with steady doubt, think “maybe it’s so” and act on that, all the
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by visural 10y ago
Not a very rigorous test - but I just applied this to one of our (very) large angular 1.x apps and it had a consistent 20-30% reduction in profiled execution time across the couple of test interactions I did. That said, I'm not sure it
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by visural 12y ago
First penny arcade comic - http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18 A recent one - http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/02/16/attempted-recid...
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by visural 12y ago
As with the shirt example in the original article, the cost of labour (i.e. paying people for their time) represents the majority of the cost in building a house. The other items you list are using cheaper overseas labour in their construct
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by visural 12y ago
Am I right in saying that the complaints with btrfs in CoreOS are specifically around its use in conjunction with Docker? (Interested as I'm thinking about building a homebrew NAS/general purpose server w/ btrfs, there's
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by visural 12y ago
I find these landing pages that don't let me even have a peek at the actual product, so they can funnel me down the "Try now for free path" really irritating.
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by visural 12y ago
Netbeans also has a local history recording feature which is integrated pretty well alongside the git/vcs features (just hit history on any file and see a log of all your local changes intermingled with the committed versions).
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by visural 12y ago
There's nothing in the parent comment that seems unreasonable to me. You're putting a spin on it that doesn't exist. The content of Quora today is what it is. The Internet Archive has no agenda for misrepresenting the content
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by visural 12y ago
I think you used the wrong word - IMO Uncle Bobisms often show a lack of practical pragmatism. The vibe I usually get from listening to him is along the lines of... "if everyone just did things the right way then we wouldn't hav
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by visural 12y ago
Don't install games on your "work" PC. This is a really simple way to keep yourself honest. Even if it's partitioned OSes on the same machine it would help.
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No more "scientific" whaling for Japan(theage.com.au)
3 points by visural 12y ago|0 comments
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by visural 13y ago
This is pretty similar to what google can do with gmail already, and that doesn't seem to be more profitable the traditional google search ads.
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by visural 13y ago
While the benchmark shows that there is a measurable difference between using getters/setters and NOT using them. I have doubts this would make a great deal of difference in application level code. The performance bottlenecks are most
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by visural 13y ago
It is possibly 600k non-spam emails per day? With the 70GB including all data w/ spam. Because with ~300k accounts 600k emails per day is only 2 per account which isn't much taking spam into account.
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by visural 13y ago
Well that's disappointing.
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by visural 13y ago
I recently read "The Naked Ape" and a theory discussed there, is that public speaking is actually an acutely unnatural scenario which we are not well evolved to cope with. To stare at someone is generally a threatening gesture, certainly th
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by visural 13y ago
I'm not sure how that contradicts what I said about DFA and other similar Kickstarters. If you backed a Kickstarter that was pitched as solely a preorder for an already complete product, then you have every right to be upset if that Kicksta
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by visural 13y ago
After viewing all the negativity on here, I'd actually recommend people that feel the same _should_ stay away from Kickstarter. If the only value to you is getting the game itself, then wait for it to be finished and buy it through Steam o
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by visural 13y ago
Do you have any evidence, because that would be news-worthy. Or are you just making stuff up?
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by visural 13y ago
I don't list my interests on my facebook profile, nor do a great many of the people on my friends list. For some that is because they don't want facebook having this information, for others, they simple can't be bothered entering it. I don'
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by visural 13y ago
It's also worth bearing in mind the needs of the many, vs. the needs of the few. With the kiddie porn issues, generally the number of children being talked about is a very small minority of the total, and usually the issue under discussion
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by visural 13y ago
Why would you want your phone to be the key to your most secure data? Also from what I've seen in the past most finger print scanning and cheap, "organic" identity verification tech is not reliable and easily circumvented. Despite not being
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by visural 14y ago
From what I see it is usually well intentioned but not exceptional developers trying to write "good code". They know some sort of abstraction is called for, but they end up picking abstractions which are actually a net negative for code com
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Farce: Adobe CEO flatly refuses Australian price questions (video)(delimiter.com.au)
1 points by visural 14y ago|0 comments
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by visural 14y ago
If that's true, is there a technical reason that no one used different frame rates prior during the age of projected film? (for big budget movies)
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by visural 14y ago
It seems to me, the problem with AI as applied to gaming, is that just having "good AI" doesn't mean having the smartest AI that can kick the player's butt, it means having AI that the player can observe and formulate strategies against. If
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by visural 14y ago
I would assume this - "I have made two basic arguments about post-9/11 airport security. One, we are not doing the right things. And two, the things we are doing are wrong."
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by visural 14y ago
Could you explain why? I've never been able to find a conclusive answer on GPL applied to Javascript
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by visural 15y ago
Couldn't the same argument be applied to JQuery UI then?

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